Project Controller

Teal Energi; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Teal Energi is seeking an experienced Project Controller to support capital projects at Client’s Corpus Christi, Texas facility. This onsite, full-time contract role focuses on project scheduling, development and maintenance, progress monitoring, and reporting rather than traditional cost control.

The role involves coordinating with Projects, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, and contractor teams to develop Level 1 and Level 2 schedules, and to track milestones and recovery

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project controls, scheduling, or related capital projects experience.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Project for schedule development, maintenance, forecasting and reporting.
• Experience developing integrated schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Experience with MOC processes within an operating industrial environment, LNG/oil & gas or petrochemical background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain Level 1 and Level 2 schedules for capital projects using Microsoft Project.
• Establish milestones and sequence activities across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Monitor schedule performance, critical activities, forecast dates, constraints and deviations.
• Prepare schedule reports, milestone and look-ahead schedules for status meetings.
• Coordinate schedule interfaces across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Operations, Maintenance and contractors.
• Support planning and scheduling of brownfield work within an operating industrial facility.

Skills

Project controls

Schedule development

Microsoft Project

Scheduling fundamentals

Communication skills

Analytics

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Teal Energi is seeking an experienced Project Controller to support capital projects at Client’s Corpus Christi, Texas facility. This is a full-time, onsite contract role with the possibility of long-term extension. This role is primarily focused on project scheduling, schedule development and maintenance, progress monitoring, and schedule reporting rather than traditional cost control.

The Project Controller will work across Projects, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, and contractor teams to develop and maintain Level 1 and Level 2 schedules using Microsoft Project. The role supports projects throughout planning, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

Job Duties:

Project Scheduling

• Develop, maintain, and update Level 1 and Level 2 schedules for capital projects and facility modifications using Microsoft Project.
• Establish milestones and logically sequence engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities.
• Define and maintain activity durations, dependencies, constraints, critical milestones, and schedule baselines.
• Integrate contractor and discipline schedules into overall project schedules.
• Monitor schedule performance, critical and near-critical activities, forecast dates, constraints, and deviations from approved plans.
• Evaluate schedule impacts resulting from scope changes, design changes, field conditions, and other project developments.
• Develop recovery scenarios and identify opportunities to mitigate schedule delays.

Project Controls and Reporting

• Prepare schedule reports, milestone reports, look-ahead schedules, progress updates, and schedule variance information.
• Validate project progress and remaining durations with engineering, construction, and contractor teams.
• Identify schedule trends, execution risks, delays, and potential recovery opportunities.
• Provide schedule updates, constraints, upcoming activities, and areas of concern during project status meetings.
• Maintain accurate schedule and project controls documentation through project closeout.

Management of Change and Project Integration

• Support Management of Change (MOC) activities by incorporating approved changes and evaluating schedule impacts.
• Incorporate operational constraints, outages, tie-ins, site access requirements, construction sequencing, and commissioning activities into schedules.
• Track MOC-related milestones and deliverables.
• Coordinate schedule interfaces across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, commissioning, and contractors.
• Support planning and scheduling of brownfield work within an operating industrial facility.

Contractor and Project Team Coordination

• Review contractor schedules for alignment with project milestones, objectives, and execution requirements.
• Coordinate with project teams and contractors to obtain accurate schedule updates.
• Review and challenge schedule assumptions, durations, logic, sequencing, and forecast dates as appropriate.
• Participate in project planning, scheduling, progress, and coordination meetings.
• Promote consistent scheduling practices and reliable reporting across assigned projects.

Job Requirements:

• Approximately 10 years of project controls, project scheduling, or related capital project experience.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Level 1 and Level 2 project schedules.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Project for schedule development, maintenance, analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of scheduling fundamentals, including dependencies, milestones, critical path, constraints, baselines, progress measurement, and forecasting.
• Experience developing integrated schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Experience evaluating schedule trends, risks, delays, changes, and recovery opportunities.
• Experience supporting Management of Change (MOC) processes within an operating industrial environment.
• Experience with LNG, oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, chemical processing, or comparable heavy industrial capital projects strongly preferred.
• Brownfield project and operating-facility experience preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to clearly communicate schedule status and risks to project teams, contractors, and leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple schedules and competing priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite at Client’s Corpus Christi, Texas facility.

Physical requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi:

Teal Energi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, Teal Energi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

Teal Energi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.